Elites and Power in British Society
Author: Philip Stanworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1974-05-23
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521204415
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Author: Philip Stanworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1974-05-23
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521204415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Owen Peter Jones
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1612194877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: London: Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2014.
Author: Ellis Archer Wasson
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is a study of the governing class in Great Britain and Ireland based on a complete survey of all families who participated regularly in parliament." "Using the records of the History of Parliament and the results of his own independent research, Ellis Wasson has reconstructed the shape and structure of Britain's small and remarkably stable ruling elite from medieval times to 1945. No other European governing class was so rich or able to survive into the modern era with much of that wealth and privilege intact. Wasson shows how its unique two-tiered structure of a handful of ancient families on top and a much larger second echelon broadly open to 'new men' from business helped Britain become the first modern society and prolonged the elite's supremacy."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: C.WRIGHT MILLS
Publisher:
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 442
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hywel Williams
Publisher: Constable & Robinson
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSINCE 1979 this country has undergone a revolution. It was a very British affair - certainly no tanks on the streets and precious little violent agitation. But under first Thatcher then Blair, the post-war consensus has given way to a brand-new political order. The language of global competition, of historical inevitability and of national destiny has provided cover for a power grab more complete and ruthless than any since the English Civil War. The discretion with which this has been accomplished has left commentators baffled. Yet one thing is clear. Ironically, set against the fantasies of the heritage industry, Victorian, even Georgian, inequalities of wealth and status are back, though the methods used to justify them have changed. Hywel Williams offers an exhilarating new analysis. The order that once governed Britain is dead, and he reveals the perpetrator. Alone among imperial cadres, the capital's money men survive. They have grasped the new opportunities offered to capital, and seen off or subverted all possible threats to their freedom. The City has killed its rivals, and everyone up until now has been too polite to mention it. It is time to be clear about exactly who does run this place.
Author: John Scott
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0745687822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe lifestyle, economic basis and political affiliations of the British upper class are the focus of this exciting new textbook. Combining a review of existing sociological theory on class and capitalism with material drawn from a great variety of sources it is likely to become a standard course text. Examining the question of whether there is still a ruling class in Britain, John Scott presents an account of the historical development of the British upper class, the development of industrial and financial dynasties, town and country society as well as of London and the political world. Photographs and other illustrations cover subjects as diverse as public school fees, the structure of parliament, and the dates and events of the 'Season'.
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 261
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tom Cutterham
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-10-13
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0691210101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped the ideologies and institutions of the fledgling nation. Tom Cutterham examines how, facing pressure from populist movements as well as the threat of foreign empires, these gentlemen argued among themselves to find new ways of justifying economic and political inequality in a republican society. At the heart of their ideology was a regime of property and contract rights derived from the norms of international commerce and eighteenth-century jurisprudence. But these gentlemen were not concerned with property alone. They also sought personal prestige and cultural preeminence. Cutterham describes how, painting the egalitarian freedom of the republic's "lower sort" as dangerous licentiousness, they constructed a vision of proper social order around their own fantasies of power and justice. In pamphlets, speeches, letters, and poetry, they argued that the survival of the republican experiment in the United States depended on the leadership of worthy gentlemen and the obedience of everyone else. Lively and elegantly written, Gentlemen Revolutionaries demonstrates how these elites, far from giving up their attachment to gentility and privilege, recast the new republic in their own image.
Author: Geraint Parry
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 184
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